Frodo Ceramic Cat Cave

Frodo is the most playful of the caves, a rounded stoneware shelter that sprouts two springy antennae of hemp-wrapped cable, each finished with an openwork ceramic sphere and a pompom tucked inside. A cat swats them and they sway and spring straight back.

Underneath the whimsy it is the same serious ceramic as the rest of the range, hand-modeled and high-fired in a satin white glaze, just a little lighter and taller.

Specifications

• Material: Hand-modeled high-fired stoneware, satin white glaze, with hemp-cord antennae and moving elements
• Dimensions: Body approx. 17.7 in (45 cm), 26.8 in high with antennae (68 cm), approx. 17.7 in diameter (45 cm), approx. 26 lb (12 kg)
• Made in: Spain, by hand

Made by hand, one piece at a time

Sara Monge is a ceramic artist working in Spain, and every piece here leaves her studio by her own hands. The clay is modeled, then fired at high temperature more than once, until stoneware reaches the hardness and stability it needs to live in a home for years. Because each piece is made individually, small variations from one to the next are part of the work, not a flaw in it.

Function that becomes form

These are objects to be used and to be looked at. A cave is a real shelter a cat disappears into and a sculpture that holds its own beside the furniture. A bowl lifts a meal off the floor and reads as a considered object on the counter. The standard is the same throughout, cat pieces made to the level of studio ceramics.